Ricardo Trejo-Martinez, an illegal alien from Mexico, has pleaded guilty to assaulting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Deportation Officer earlier this year. The defendant, during a traffic stop, shoved a deportation officer into oncoming traffic, endangering the officer’s life, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Atlanta.
U.S. Attorney Theodore Hertzberg says the charges and other information were presented in U.S. District Court in Gainesville.
They showed that on May 20, an ICE deportation officer conducted a vehicle stop in Commerce to serve an administrative arrest warrant for an illegal alien. The driver, Ricardo Trejo-Martinez, was the sole occupant of the vehicle. He refused to comply with the officer’s requests to provide identification and identify himself. Once outside the vehicle, Trejo-Martinez shoved the deportation officer into the four-lane highway where vehicles were passing.
Ricardo Trejo-Martinez, 41, of Querétaro, Mexico, pleaded guilty to assaulting a federal officer. Trejo-Martinez was indicted by a federal grand jury on July 1, 2025. Sentencing has been scheduled for January 20, 2026, at 1:30 p.m.